Human Resources for Pediatric Health Care of Ukraine.

ABSTRACT

Introduction. The quality and availability of medical care for children of country depends on the quantity of pediatricians and the quality of their training. This is especially important in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Purpose. To assess the state of staffing and training of pediatricians in healthcare institutions of Ukraine in comparison with same world and European indicators and determine the necessary measures for improvement. Materials and methods. For this research we have used methods of the system approach and epidemiological analysis of data from GU "Center of medical statistics of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine" for eleven years (2009-2020). Results. According to the level of training of doctors, including pediatricians, Ukraine has reached total rank of 38th in the European region. Such dynamics of changes in the availability of human resources for healthcare is accompanied by reductions in the volume of training of pediatricians since 2017. According to the Center for Medical Statistics from 31.12.2020 the Ministry of Health of Ukraine provided medical care in pediatric health care institutions of all forms of ownership with the help of 8812 pediatricians, of whom 7925 (90%) were worked in primary health care centers, clinics and hospitals of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. This numbers are significantly lower than in 2009, when there were 12 450 practicing pediatricians. As we see, the number of pediatricians has decreased by 15.4% for the last 7 years. Conclusion. Importance of the problems with personnel in pediatric healthcare had shown us a necessity of radical government management decisions for improvement of the situation with the training of pediatricians and preventing of risks of limitations of access to pediatric medical assistance and deterioration of quality of medical care for children in the country. This might be possible with rational planning of the state necessity in the training of pediatricians and significant improvement of their social protection and working conditions. Possible steps should include increasing pediatrics necessity state order up to 1000 pediatricians in state medical universities annually by targeted regional medical personnel necessity order, taking into account the needs of the regions and reviewing their training programs in accordance with the modern requirements.Copyright © 2022, Professionalnye Izdaniya. All rights reserved.